Accelerate to the cloud with solutions combining best-in-class EMC-Microsoft virtualization technologies. These solutions help to lower costs, enable flexibility, simplify management, and ensure a higher quality of service for your application users.

Flexibility

EMC provides flexible, cost-effective infrastructure solutions for both high performance and high capacity. These solutions are ideal for Microsoft environments looking to consolidate, virtualize, and transform to the cloud.

Application Services

Deliver the benefits of virtualization and the cloud while ensuring a higher quality of application services to your end users. Ensure application performance, scalability, access, availability, and, if needed, rapid recovery.

Solution Description

Challenge

Within many Microsoft Exchange environments, IT organizations are struggling to successfully address the challenges associated with increasing users and data, cost, and management complexity while being hindered by inflexible infrastructures and siloed environments. Many organizations are turning to virtualization for more efficient, agile, and flexible IT operations.

Application Solution

EMC solutions for Microsoft Exchange and our unified communications reduce the cost and complexity of your messaging environment. They combine best-in-class hardware and software with a complete portfolio of services to help you increase service levels, protect data, simplify deployment and management, and derive the most value from your email information.

In fact, EMC has won the Partner of the Year award 21 times and has achieved 16 gold and silver competencies including many related to Exchange, unified communications, and virtualization.

EMC has developed many EMC Proven Solutions that document best practices for confidently deploying and managing virtualized Microsoft environments including:

Performance, scalability, and efficiency

Backup, recovery, and deduplication

Archiving

Data protection

Performance, Scalability, and Efficiency

In the planning and design phases of a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 implementation or upgrade, it's important to understand how the application interacts with the storage platform and virtualization technologies. It's also critical to know which practices to follow to avoid problems and achieve the best performance.

From a storage design perspective, the application architecture and user profile characteristics of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 are significantly different from earlier versions of Exchange (2003 and 2007). Microsoft has made significant changes to the Exchange Server 2010 storage schema to accommodate new, high-availability scenarios and larger mailboxes with fewer input/output operations per second (IOPS).

Understanding Exchange Server 2010 I/O and bandwidth characteristics is key to design an efficient storage configuration. Having developed many best practices and Proven Solutions, EMC can help organizations to accelerate Exchange 2010 deployments and migrations.

With EMC backup and recovery solutions for Microsoft, you can quickly and easily recover Exchange to any point in time or consolidate Exchange backup and recovery operations by centralizing, streamlining, and automating your data protection.

Data Protection

With EMC solutions for Exchange data protection and business continuity, you can build and deploy a resilient infrastructure for your mission-critical virtualized Exchange environments. Our business continuity solutions help you to address increasing user requirements for higher levels of services, avoid costly outages, and recover from disasters in minutes or hours instead of days.

Partners

Accelerate Exchange to the cloud with help from the following EMC partners:

Accelerate to the cloud with solutions combining best-in-class EMC-Microsoft virtualization technologies. These solutions help to lower costs, enable flexibility, simplify management, and ensure a higher quality of service for your application users.